BUNZEL) MISCELLANEOUS K.\TCINAS 1083 



Yebitcai wears shirt and trousers, bright ribbons, silver belt, brown 

 moccasins. He carries a young deer in his left hand, bow and arrow. 

 Mask turquoise blue with border of black hair, eagle wing feathers 

 standing up with ribbon streamers at their tips. 



Ceremonies. — "They dance this in the fall before Ca'lako. This is 

 not a kiva dance. The kiva chiefs have nothing to do with it. The 

 young boys who want to dance get together and dance Pakoko 

 without prayers. The song is very hard to sing, it is very high 

 and only the young men with good voices can do it. They always 

 have three groups and they take turns dancing, because the song is 

 so hard to sing that they get tired quickly. Any young man who 

 wants to and is a good singer will be the leader. Each group has 

 its leader, and it is called by his ceremonial affiliation. The ne'we-kwe 

 always come out for this dance. During the night the women 

 bring food for the dancers and for the spectators. The Pakoko bring 

 a whole sheep or a side of beef and give it to the ne'we'kwe to 

 roast in the fire in the plaza. In the morning when the sun comes 

 up they start their last song. They always go out to the north. 

 Yebitcai leads and after him come the rest of the line, two by two, 

 one man and one woman. Another dancer, dressed differently, 

 comes at the end and waves his arms as if driving the others before 

 him." 



Folklore. — Long ago the people were suffering from a sickness of 

 swelHngs.*^ At that time the Navaho had nothing to eat. They came 

 here to buy corn and paper bread and other tilings to eat. The 

 Navaho thought the Zuni people were very kind because they gave 

 them food in spite of the fact that they had just had a war and the 

 Navaho had been cruel. \Miile the Navaho were here the people were 

 in great trouble on account of the sickness. There was one man who 

 spoke Navaho very well and he told the Navaho what kind of sickness 

 they were having. Then the Navaho said, "We have something to 

 cure that kind of sickness. We have had trouble \vith that too, and we 

 know all about it. We have a katcina who can cure swellings." So 

 the Itiwana man and the Navaho decided that they should come and 

 dance for the Itiwana people to cm-e the sickness of swellings. 



Then the Itiwana man took the Navaho to the katcina chief. 

 They came in and the man said, "My father, I have brought this num 

 to you. We have had much sickness and all our people are unhappy 

 because of it. This man says he feels sorry for us because we have 

 been kind to liis people. They have treated us badly and have made 

 war on us, but now they have come here to buy paper bread and corn 

 and we have been kind to them. So they want to help us to cm'e this 

 sickness. That is why I have brought this man here to ask you if 

 you want them to come and dance for us. They say their dance cures 



" Probably mumps. 



